Summertime in Auckland and Free Walking Tour
We have arrived in sunny Auckland. We left Toronto on Saturday January 26 and had an enjoyable 4 1/2 hour flight to San Francisco. We used our business class points and were on a relatively new Air Canada 787. An excellent flight attendant helped reassure me during some turbulence. We then switched to United for our flight from San Francisco to Auckland. We were supposed to leave at 10:45 p.m., but didn't fly out until 1:00 a.m. There had been a computer glitch with the passenger list, so we had to deplane and everyone had to check in again. The 12.5 hour flight was fine and we did get some sleep in our business pods. We arrived in Auckland at 10:30 a.m. on Monday January 28. Very weird missing Sunday. We are 18 hours ahead of Toronto time! Flying into Auckland Lots of green Maori welcome at the airport We are staying in a studio apartment in the Grey Lynn area of Aukland. It is located behind a modern ho...